3-state project to look at developing adolescent brains

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Researchers in New Mexico, Nevada and Louisiana are joining in a $5.9 million project to try to understand how adolescent brains develop.
Scientists at the universities of New Mexico and Nevada will scan the brains of 230 children between the ages of 9 and 15, taking three scans of each over the four-year project, lead researcher Vince Calhoun of the University of New Mexico’s Mind Research Network said in an email Wednesday.
He said Tulane University scientists wi